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What anxieties did medieval missionaries and crusaders face and what role did the sense of risk play in their community-building? To what extent did crusaders and Christian colonists empathize with the local populations they set out to conquer? Who were the hosts and who were the guests during the confrontations with the pagan societies on the Baltic Rim? And how were the uncertainties of the conversion process addressed in concrete encounters and in the accounts of Christian authors? This book explores emotional bonding as well as practices and discourses of hospitality as uncertain means of evangelization, interaction, and socialization across cultural divides on the Baltic Rim, c. 1000–1300. It focuses on interactions between local populations and missionary communities, as well as crusader frontier societies. By applying tools of historical anthropology to the study of host-guest relations, spaces of hospitality, emotional communities, and empathy on the fronts of Christianization, this book offers fresh insights and approaches to the manner in which missionaries and crusaders reflexively engaged with the groups targeted by Christianization in terms of practice, ethics, and identity.

Church history --- Hospitality --- Conversion --- Missionaries --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Christianity --- Social aspects --- History --- Baltic Coast --- Church history. --- Baltic Coast (Soviet Union) --- Baltic Sea Coast --- Religious adherents --- Religious conversion --- Psychology, Religious --- Proselytizing --- Middle Ages, 600-1500

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“This transhistorical volume explores the paradoxical nature of hospitality in the Baltic Sea region. Covering a multifarious gallery of social groups, the book demonstrates how deeply hospitality is interlinked with securitization.” – Marek Tamm, Professor of Cultural History, Tallinn University, Estonia “This book contributes to a very timely debate on the issue of immigration in Europe from a historical perspective. Its sophisticated and rich chapters are unified in their focus on hospitality as a transhistorical phenomenon.” – Andrea Spehar, Director of the Centre on Global Migration, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Reflecting debate around hospitality and the Baltic Sea region, this open access book taps into wider discussions about reception, securitization and xenophobic attitudes towards migrants and strangers. Focusing on coastal and urban areas, the collection presents an overview of the responses of host communities to guests and strangers in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea, from the early eleventh century to the twentieth. The chapters investigate why and how diverse categories of strangers including migrants, war refugees, prisoners of war, merchants, missionaries and vagrants, were portrayed as threats to local populations or as objects of their charity, shedding light on the current predicament facing many European countries. Emphasizing the Baltic Sea region as a uniquely multi-layered space of intercultural encounter and conflict, this book demonstrates the significance of Northeastern Europe to migration history. Sari Nauman is Associate Professor in History at Södertörn University and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Wojtek Jezierski is Associate Professor in History at Södertörn University, Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the University of Oslo in Norway. Christina Reimann is Postdoctoral Researcher in History at Stockholm University, Södertörn University and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Leif Runefelt is Professor in the History of Ideas at Södertörn University, Sweden.

European history --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- Social & cultural history --- Migrant crises --- Baltic Sea --- Inhospitality --- Xenophobia --- Strangers --- Refugees --- Missionaries --- Migration history --- Community --- Hostility --- Discrimination --- Host --- Intercultural --- Northern European history --- Spaces of hospitality --- Other --- Baltic Rim --- Europe—History. --- Emigration and immigration. --- Social history. --- Europe—History—476-1492. --- Civilization—History. --- European History. --- Human Migration. --- Social History. --- History of Medieval Europe. --- Cultural History. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization